Harrison Houde

Harrison Houde (; born March 26, 1996) is a Canadian actor, producer, director, YouTuber, and musician. He is best known for his first acting role as Darren Walsh in the 2010 American film Diary of a Wimpy Kid and for his role as 'Bowie' in the sitcom Some Assembly Required. He has also composed original scores, which have aired on TV internationally, and is a synth-wave music producer under the alias Tokyo Rat.

Career Acting He landed his first role in Diary of a Wimpy Kid in 2010.

He was nominated and won a Joey Award for his work in Some Assembly Required on November 16, 2014, in the category "Best Young Actor age 10-19 or younger in a TV Series Comedy/Action Leading Role." In 2015, Harrison was named one of Hollywood Reporter''''s young up-and-coming rising stars to watch from Canada. The TV Show Finding Stuff Out, which Houde hosted, secured the Canadian Screen Award in 2016 for Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series.

Television In early 2010, Houde began hosting the first three seasons of a television show called Finding Stuff Out, produced by Apartment 11 Productions.

On January 6, 2014, he joined the cast of the Canadian sitcom Some Assembly Required, which premiered on YTV and is on Netflix worldwide.

In 2017, Houde appeared in an episode of Rogue.

In 2021, Houde produced and directed a new show called Stories of Kindness, which was an interview series from “Canada’s ‘kindness champions’”. According to Houde, “the show focuses on spreading kindness, connection and storytelling through children”, and is hosted by Travis Price.

Filmmaking Houde's first short film I Dare You made its debut at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in Telefilm Canada's Not Short on Talent program. Tight Lettuce'', his feature directorial debut, entered production in 2024, and is slated to premiere at the 30th Fantasia International Film Festival.

YouTube As of November 2022, he has 22.3K subscribers.

In early 2013 he signed with the YouTube network the Collective Digital Studios based in Beverly Hills, California.

In early 2016 Harrison left his YouTube network (Collective Digital Studios now known as Studio71).

Filmography Films Year Title Character/Role Notes 2010 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Darren Walsh 2011 A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! Hall Monitor Television film 2014 Noah 2: Go Forth and Multiply Japheth Short film 2014 Pants on Fire Kyle TV movie 2016 I Dare You Tyler Short film 2017 The Samaritan Max Short film 2018 Summer of 84 Bobby Coker 2018 Vinny's Girl Hugo Short film 2019 Buttonwillow Cfred Short film 2022 Girl Gone Bad Blair 2022 Cafe Racer Harlow 2026 Tight Lettuce Director

Televisions Year Title Character/Role Notes 2010 Untold Stories of the E.R. Alex Episode: "Heart in Hand" 2012–2014 Finding Stuff Out Harrison Main role 2013–2014 Spooksville Stanley 'Scaredy' Katzman 3 episodes 2014–2016 Some Assembly Required Bowie Sherman Main role 2016 The Bowie Showie Bowie (as himself) TV mini series 2017 Rogue Bobby Episode: "How The Light Gets In" 2018 IZombie Caddy Episode: "Blue Bloody" 2018 The Hollow Kai Episode: "Colrath" 2019 Bazerk! Episode: "Love & Pizza"